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my name is Don Phillips I was in the

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United States Air Force and had worked

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with certain intelligence agencies of

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the United States government prior to my

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Air Force by pardoning the Air Force I

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worked for the famous Lockheed

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skunkworks and I was working for them

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when I was attending college and I

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worked them at work for them in the

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capacity as a design engineer it was one

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of my proudest moments of my life to

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work with a man by the name of Kelly

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Johnson a lot of you might be familiar

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with that it turns out that the models

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of aircraft that we were building as you

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know we're all classified were in the

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deep black and that I came in on the end

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of the YouTube project my main project

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was known later as the sr-71 the sr-71

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had a predecessor it had a special model

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built for the CIA and that those models

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were one one passenger one pilot special

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aircraft in order to get from one place

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to another very very quickly

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now these sr-71s as we know them the

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Blackbird are the type of aircraft that

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are still classified in a sense as far

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as the altitude that it flies at and

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also the speed records that it holds I

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am very proud to say that this aircraft

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played a big part in helping to end the

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Cold War the aircraft the predecessor

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aircraft there's strong evidence to

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suggest that perhaps these aircraft had

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a different role once in the air each

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pilot and I know a few of them each

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pilot had an assignment before they took

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okay they learned about the assignment

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immediately prior takeoff and there's

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strong evidence to suggest that there

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was a guru role in that they were

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monitoring some type of traffic to and

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from Planet Earth

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this can be verified at a later point

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this was I'll jump into my military

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experience my first field assignment for

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the United States Air Force was at Las

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Vegas Airport station and that was my

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first experience with Las Vegas and I

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couldn't understand why people were

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being so excited about going to a place

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such as this but I soon found out about

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a year later Nellis Air Force Base is

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located there

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Nellis is a major training center for

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different types of special aircraft and

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fighter aircraft one of the premier

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training sites for pilots all around the

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world however when I learned that my

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assignment was at a radar site 50 miles

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out of town up near Mount Charleston I

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had no idea where we where I'd be so

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finally in the daylight I was able to

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find the location and reported in the in

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1965 for duty in 1966 early in the

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morning about 1 to 2 a.m. I was sleeping

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I was staying there on base and our

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barracks were at about 8,000 feet I

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heard a lot of commotion you know at

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that altitude sound carries sound

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carries tremendously and I thought well

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it's early in the morning it's

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summertime and there is a lot it's very

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warm and maybe I should get up and take

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a look I didn't really want to but I got

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up and took a look walked up to the main

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road up near my office which was the

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commander's office I was on the

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commander staff Lieutenant Colonel

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Charles Evans and I couldn't I would say

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who's making all this noise who's making

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all this noise and

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the morning so when I got within about

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50 yards of the five four or five people

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that were standing there

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one being the chief of security they

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were looking up in the air and I said

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gee they all their heads are all head

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looking at the same direction well I

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looked up to the west-northwest and to

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my amazement there were lights flashing

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around the sky moving at anywhere from

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what seemed like twenty fourth twenty

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four hundred to about thirty eight

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hundred miles per hour now the fact that

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we're taking an estimate from a distance

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you know we figured well this is this is

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quite something

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however we continue to watch these

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flight these darting lights go across

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the sky and stop absolutely stop come to

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a dead stop and reverse in an acute

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angle third direction and then proceed

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on and sort of they were traveling so

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fast that you can almost see a pattern

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left my if you are computer people when

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you move a mouse real quick across the

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screen you see a little bit of a tail

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well that's exactly the way these six or

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seven crafts worked after five minutes

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of watching these things they all seemed

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to group up to the west-northwest okay

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we started to come in on a circle but

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what I would like to point out is that

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where they were putting on their display

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in the north-northwest guy just directly

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east of that is what is known as area 51

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area 51 is a AEC name okay Atomic Energy

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Commission that was the old name for

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Atomic Energy Commission we knew it as

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the groom Lake flight test facility in

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the Air Force and it was where we tested

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our aircraft about this group after we

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got the prototype made from the

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skunkworks

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so here are these let's get back to the

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circle in the sky what they did was

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coalesce and started rotating in a

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circle and then they disappeared well I

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thought gee this is something that we

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have to keep quiet and that

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verified by the chief of security but we

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waited there and talked it over for a

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little bit that seemed like I think it

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was an hour then came the radar people

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from the scopes which were at 10,000

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plus feet came down for their dinner at

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2 o'clock in the morning and the first

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person off the bus was a good friend of

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mine Anthony case our he said he was

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white as a sheet and he says did you see

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that yeah we all said yeah you know it

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was a nice display what a show he says

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we documented them on radar and he says

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we didn't give him Clarence we just the

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standing order was let him fly through

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the radar beam he says we documented six

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to seven UFOs now we don't know who was

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guiding those but they were certainly

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intelligent and we don't know where they

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landed because they coalesced and

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disappeared so I will say at this point

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to keep it short that I will testify

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under oath as to what I say is true and

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I will do so before Congress thank you

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you